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Welcome to our online antiquarian bookshop where you can begin your rare book search. Here you will find antiquarian books, rare books, works on paper, and first edition books for sale, all selected by our book specialists who have over 200 years of experience between them.
You can buy rare books, many of them signed, on a variety of subjects, including Travel & Voyages, Literature, Rare Children’s books, Natural History, Illustrated books, Hebraica & Judaica, books of Russian interest and Guidebooks. We have books from a variety of famous authors available at our rare bookstore.
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8vo [12], 91, 96-173, [3] pp., additional engraved title, 15 engraved plates and maps, (2 folding), some cut close, by Van der Gucht after drawings by Froger; lightly browned, scattered spotting. Contemporary calf, worn, rebacked, a very good copy of a scarce title.
£3,500 -
Stud bound, in burgundy boards, Bawden design on cream paper to both boards printed in black. Full page illustrated title page by Bawden, vignettes and borders throughout. A very good copy.
£650 -
Concertina-style miniature prayerbook, illuminated manuscript in Arabic, complete, 16 conjoined leaves, 48 by 48 mm; numerous illustrations including images of the holy sites of Mecca and Medina, attributions to Prophet Muhammad through depictions of his hand prints, foot prints, and his Seal of Prophecy, with further illustrations pertaining to the other prophets such as the sword of 'Ali, all heightened in gilt, versos and outer boards backed in contemporary marbled paper.
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First edition, 3 atlases bound in 2 vols; folio; 203 plates plates comprising: [Album Historique, Ethnologique et Archéologique] large folding map mounted on linen, 59 lithographed plates (3 of which are folding) most coloured, part-coloured or tinted bound with [Album Zoologie:] 40 hand-coloured engraved plates of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish, and insects, separately bound [Atlas Botanique:] 103 engraved plates, some light foxing throughout; half green morocco over green cloth boards, gilt title blind stamped to covers, spine gilt ruled with title and tooling, a fine copy.
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First edition thus; 4to (245 x 195 mm; 123 colour plates with captioned tissue guards and 25 black & white illustrations by Arthur Rackham; publisher's green cloth, gilt, illustrated endpapers (toned), top edge gilt, a few small marks to cloth, spine ends bumped, otherwise very good and internally fine.
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First edition. 8vo (19 x 13 cm), illustrated throughout with wood-engravings, previous owner's ink inscription inside on preliminary pages, marbled endpapers; full contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt decorated, green morocco label, gilt lettered; xiv, 500 pp; a fine copy.
£250 -
First edition; 8vo (225 x 155 mm); 12 tissue-guarded, colour illustrations by Harry Morley and a further 8 in sepia, neat gift presentation to half-title; near contemporary half morocco by Hatchards, Piccadillly, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, as published, spine darkened, rubbed at extremities, otherwise very good.
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Thick 4to (245 x 165); portrait frontispiece of the poet after Romney, additional pictorial title and 4 further plates after J. Gilbert, offsetting from frontispiece to pictorial title and a few spots to both, otherwise fine; mid-twentieth century full morocco, foliate gilt-panelled, gilt-tooled spine panels and dentelles, mild rubbing to extremities, a very handsome volume.
£250 -
Second edition, revised, folio, xvi, 464 pp., 37 engravings including large folding map, most full page, 1 double-page, contemporary russia, rebacked, later endpapers, corners worn, a very good, clean copy.
£1,750
